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D. H. WIGGINS.

GAME.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4,1915.

1,160,024., Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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Application filed June 4, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUDLEY H. VVIeGINs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Washington township, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Game and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

This game is based upon the game commonly known heretofore as checkers and drafts, and in the combination therewith of additional features which make it in a sense a war game and materially increases the interest and possibilities of complications and the requirements of skill, over the old game.

The chief feature of the invention consists in associating a plurality of checkered portions adjacent each other with differentiated squares in said two portions and with differentiated checkers for the different checkered portions.

The game preferably has a game board having an ordinary checkered portion representing land on which war is waged, and an adjacent checkered portion representing water and on which checkers representing ships are moved. The land checkers representing men are employed and across the checkered portion representing water and away from said land portion, there are two coast line portions having reserve bases on which ordinary checkers or men are placed. The ships carry men or checkers and when in position adjacent the land portion, said men or checkers may be landed and the ships will move across the water portion to the reserve bases for transportingthe men from said bases to the land section on which the war is being waged. Each checker landed from a ship becomes at once a king and on said land portion the rules of playing it are the same as in ordinary checkers or drafts.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanyingdrawings and the following description and claims.

The drawing is a plan view of the game board and checkers thereonr There is shown herein a board 10 which may be called a checker board. One lateral half or end thereof is substantially like Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Serial No. 32,118.

rated from the other end by a division line substantially midway of the board, and having the usual squares found on checker boards, the blank or land colored squares 12 and the colored squares 13 alternating with each other, the sides of each square being parallel with the sides of the board. This portion of the board represents land where the war game is played and in the particular form herein presented, it represents a portion of the continent of Europe, the western portion being France with the western line as the king row for France and with the other portion being Germany and having an eastern side or king row for Germany and Austria. Belgium is represented between Germany and France and a portion of the.

map of those countries is represented so as to give to the board somewhat of the appearance of a map with the leading rivers and'cities thereon, although the rivers and cities constitute no part in playing the game.

On the other half of the board, adjacent the main checker board or land or territory on which the war game is played and which has been heretofore described, there lies a checkered portion excepting where the sea is and on this portion are provided water colored blank squares 15 and other squares 16 colored the same as the squares 13 in the other part of the board, but said squares 15 and l6'are arranged in a diagonal position with reference to the squares 12 and 13. Also the squares l5 and 16 are smaller than the squares 12 and 13. The diagonal arrangementand the reduction in size of these latter squares 15 and 16 is to distinguish them from the main squares 12 and 13 and also to obtain the desired number of squares in a reduced space and avoid making the game board too large.

In the particular board shown, one portion of the'water part of the board is marked English Channel, another part Kiel Canal, and still another part North Sea. In one outer corner 17 of said water portion of the board there is represented a part of England with its coast line showing and three diagonal squares 18 having the words Reserve'base thereon. Opposite this corner, in the other outer corner of the water portion of the board, there is a similar showing of a part of the coast of Germany with three squares 18 marked Reserve base. These two coast regions are located opposite an ordinary checker board, it being sep'a -each other.

. a man or, if desired, a regiment or company of soldiers. There, are three checkers or men at'each reserve base and there are three checkers of each kind on the checkers 22 and'23 which represent vessels, either transports or war ships and are oblong, their only function in this game being to move back and forth between the ports and carry men or checkers to or from the battlefield or to the land or continent on which the battle is being conducted- From'each ship and from each square 18 at the reserve bases there are arrows 2 which indicate a landing or embarking place, that is, a checker or man 21 may be landed from a vessel upon the battle ground part of the board and a vessel maybe conducted over the sea from square to square to a reserve base and there one or more men embarked and transported to the battle ground or the main portion of the board on which the war is conducted.

. The game is played essentially as follows: So far as the checkers 20 and 21 on the main part of the board are concerned, they are played according to the old rules of check- There are twelve men tothe side.'each placed on a square indicated by a dot or circle,and there are also six ships placed on the squares designated by arrows, which carry an additional six men thereon. When a man reaches a king rowit becomes a king. The novel part of the game consists in bringing reinforcements from the ships or from the reserve bases by means of the ships. The ships must be brought to the land at the dividing line 11 before any checker or man can be landed therefrom and such checker or man can only be landed where indicated by the arrows. The six men already on the ships can be landed early in the game if desired. Every checker landed from the ship becomes a king at once. If more reinforce ments are desired, the ships are moved from square to square over the sea to their appropriate reserve base and there the ships may take on one or more than one man or checkers or men. Each player uses his own. udgment as to when he shall bring in rein-.-

forcements and how he shall bring them in. just the same as he uses his own judgment in playing his men or kings after they are landed on the scene of war, namely, the parton the left of the shore line 11. The landing places 2% are marked Ports, as here shown and there are also ports at the reserve "bases indicated by arrows 25.

It is obvious that the game is not limited to any particular geographical regions on the face of the earth excepting that the part to the left of the line 11 is land and thepart to'theright thereof and adjacent thereto is water or sea with land portions-or shore portions in each of the two outer corners of.

said Water or sea portion'of the board.

The invention claimed 1s:

1. A game apparatus including a board checkered portion having squares thereon arranged diagonally with reference .to the squares on the other portion, and differentiated checkers for said different checkered portions, substantially as set forth,

3. A game apparatus including a board having a plurality of adjacent checkered portions, one checkered portion having squares thereon with border lines parallel with the sides of the board, and the other checkered portion having squares thereon arranged'diagonally with reference-to the squares on the other portion and smaller than the squares onthe other portion, and differentiated checkers for said different checkered forth. f 4:. A game apparatus including a-board havinga plurality of adjacent checkered portions, one checkered portion having squares thereon with border lines parallel with the sides of the board, and the other checkered portion having squares on the other portion and with their diagonal diportions, substantially as set mnsion's the same askthe width of the 3 squares in the other portion andwith the apex of the adjacentv squares touching the adjacent squares of the other portion about midway thereof, and differentiated checkers for said different checkered portions, sub

stantially as set forth. v r

5. A game apparatus including aboard having a checkered portion representing.

land, an? adjacent checkered portion representing water, coast line portions 1n the two outer corners of said last-mentioned check- 130 ered portion having reserve bases along their opposite borders and adjacent the Water portion, checkers representing ships for said Water portion, and checkers representing men for said land portion and reserve bases and for transportation on said ships.

6. A game apparatus including a board having a checkered portion representing land With the sides of the squares thereon substantially parallel with the sides of the board, an adjacent checkered portion representing Water and having the squares thereon arranged diagonally and smaller than the squares in said land portion, coast line portions in the tWo outer corners of said lastmentioned checkered portion bases along their opposite borders and adjacent the Water portion, checkers representing ships for said Water portion, and checkers representing men for said land portion and reserve bases and for transportation on said ships.

7. A game apparatus including a board having a checkered portion representing and With the sides of the squares thereon substantially parallel with the sides of the board, an adjacent checkered portion representing water and having the squares thereon arranged diagonally and smaller than the squares in said land portion, coast line portions in the two outer corners of said last mentioned checkered portion having reserve bases along their opposite borders and adjacent the Water portion, checkers represent ing ships for said Water portion, checkers representing men for said land portion and.

reserve bases and for transportation on said ships, and arrows indicating the squares for the embarkation and landing of checkers by means of said ships.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of the witnesses herein named.

DUDLEY H. WIGGINS.

Witnesses R. G. Locnwoon, MABEL HEINOLD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

